| White Shy Guy | |
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| Appears in | Yoshi's Story (1997) |
| Variant of | Shy Guy |
- “The White Shy Guy follows you around. Does he want to be your friend?”
- —Message Block, Yoshi's Story
White Shy Guys are a species in Yoshi's Story. They are friendly Shy Guys, unlike most, and are friends to the Yoshis. If a Baby Yoshi finds a White Shy Guy, the White Shy Guy follows behind the Yoshi like a Yoshi egg, copying the Yoshi's movements until the stage is completed. The White Shy Guy takes the place of one of the Yoshi's eggs, meaning that the Yoshi can carry only five eggs instead of the normal number of six. After the stage is completed, the White Shy Guy can be selected on the Yoshi-selection screen. There can potentially be multiple White Shy Guys on the selection screen if the player collects them throughout the game without using them. If selected, the White Shy Guy equips the propeller of a Flying Shy Guy and travels to Baby Bowser's castle in order to rescue any Yoshi that has been captured by the Toadies. White Shy Guys are usually hidden inside ? Bubbles or ? Blocks in the levels they appear in. The bubbles or blocks that contain them can spawn in the respective levels only if the player has lost a Yoshi.
Other appearances of white Shy GuysEdit
In other games, white-colored Shy Guys sometimes appear in similar capacities to other colors of Shy Guys, rather than be treated as unique like in Yoshi's Story.
Mario Kart seriesEdit
A white Shy Guy is one of the random color schemes for the playable Shy Guy in Mario Kart DS exclusive to DS Download Play mode.
A White Shy Guy is available as a downloadable character in Mario Kart 8. The player can unlock it by buying both the The Legend of Zelda × Mario Kart 8 and Animal Crossing × Mario Kart 8 downloadable content packs. In Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, the White Shy Guy is included as an alternate color for Shy Guy within the base game.
In Mario Kart Tour, Shy Guy (Pastry Outfit) wears a white cloak and black shoes.
Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story / Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr.'s JourneyEdit
In Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, white Shy Guys appear during one of a Sniffle Thwomp's attacks. When it faints, three white Shy Guys come in, pick it up, and attempt to ram it into its opponents. In Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr.'s Journey, they now use their design from Mario Kart 8.
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter GamesEdit
A white Shy Guy also appears in the DS version of Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games. Here, it appears in the Adventure Tours mode in Frostown. If the player fails a mission a certain number of times, the white Shy Guy will offer a completion ticket, which can then be used to skip the mission. This does not work with the final three missions against Bowser and Dr. Eggman, since the first mission immediately starts upon encountering them and the subsequent missions start as soon as the previous ones end. If the player uses a ticket to clear Rouge's mission, it is revealed that Bowser and Eggman gave the white Shy Guy the tickets in the first place.
Yoshi's Crafted WorldEdit
In Yoshi's Crafted World, several Shy Guy variants wear space-themed silver clothing in Outer Orbit.
ProfilesEdit
- Instruction booklet description:
- English:
You have not seen too much of him before. He doesn’t seem like an enemy though. (He knows some secrets about the Yoshi Select Screen.)[1] - Other languages:
- French:
Vous ne l’avez pas beaucoup vu avant. Il ne paraît pas être un ennemi. (Il connaît des secrets à propos de l’écran de sélection des Yoshis.)[2]
(Translation: You have not seen too much of him before. He doesn’t seem like an enemy. (He knows some secrets about the Yoshi Select Screen.))
- French:
- English:
- Message Block:
- English:
The White Shy Guy follows you around. Does he want to be your friend? He might know a secret, but he won't reveal it until you get him out of here.[3] - Other languages:
- French:
Hein? Il a l'air gentil. Allez petit... Suis-moi! Je crois qu'il sert à quelques chose mais il faut d'abord le faire sortir.[4] (What? He seem kind. Come on little... Follow me! I think he serves a purpose, but first we have to get him out.)
- French:
- English:
Names in other languagesEdit
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese | しろヘイホー[6] Shiro Heihō |
White Shy Guy | |
| ヘイホー[7][note 1] Heihō |
Shy Guy | ||
| Chinese (simplified) | 白嘿虎[?] Bái Hēihǔ |
White Shy Guy | |
| French | Maskass blanc[2][4] | White Shy Guy | |
| Fantôme blanc[5] | White ghost | ||
| Italian | Timido ragazzo bianco[8] | White shy boy | |
| Ragazzo bianco timido[9] | Shy white boy | ||
| Tipo Timido Bianco[10] | White Shy Guy | ||
| Spanish (NOE) | Chico Blanco y Tímido[11] | Shy White Guy |
Footnotes and referencesEdit
FootnotesEdit
- ^ Specifically, it is referred to as しろい ヘイホー (Shiroi Heihō, meaning "White Shy Guy"), though due to the space, "shiroi" does not seem to be part of the name itself.
ReferencesEdit
- ^ 1998. Yoshi Story instruction booklet (PDF). Nintendo of Europe (English). Page 16.
- ^ a b 1998. Yoshi Story instruction booklet (PDF). Nintendo of Europe (French). Page 60.
- ^ Yoshi's Story in-game name (Uploaded 18 Feb. 2023 on Youtube by Kawaii Games)
- ^ a b Yoshi's Story in-game name from French localization (Uploaded 10 Mar. 2019 on YouTube by Omniwalk FR)
- ^ a b 1998. Nintendo Magazine : Le seul magazine officiel Nintendo 64. Issue 4. Nintendo and EMAP France (French). Page 25.
- ^ 1998. 「ヨッシー全百科」 (Yoshi Hyakka). Shogakukan (Japanese). ISBN 4-09-281158-6. Page 27. (Archived via archive.today.)
- ^ Yoshi's Story Message Block (set to Japanese)
- ^ 1998. Yoshi's Story instruction manual. Nintendo of Europe (Italian). Page 124.
- ^ 1998. Yoshi's Story instruction manual. Nintendo of Europe (Italian). Page 127.
- ^ Yoshi's Story (Virtual Console) Italian e-manual[page number needed]
- ^ Yoshi's Story Spanish guide. www.guiasnintendo.com (Spanish).